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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-pollution-anglers-lead-weights-regulations-1986/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-pollution-anglers-lead-weights-regulations-1986/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1992",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Pollution (Anglers' Lead Weights) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-pollution-anglers-lead-weights-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prohibition of supply of lead in form of lead weights",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 5, the supply of lead in the form of a lead weight for the purpose of weighting fishing lines is prohibited.\n(2) A person supplying split shot shall unless the contrary is shown be presumed to supply it for the purpose of weighting fishing lines.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (E.) (1.7.2015) by The Environmental Protection (Anglers’ Lead Weights) (England) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/815), regs. 1(3), 6(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.1.1987, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1992/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:38:21.087890+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}